Interior design in Ampang and Ampang Hilir
Ampang’s large condos, designed to the scale of their rooms.
For Ampang Hilir condos and Ampang Jaya houses, one fixed fee per room, agreed before we begin and paid in stages. We gather and compare contractors’ quotes for you.
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Price your home- The fee
RM3,565 per standard room and RM5,485 for the open-plan living and dining. Fixed in writing before we begin, never a percentage of your build, and paid in stages as the project progresses.
- A new condo
Two bedrooms and a closed kitchen, with the living and dining, come to RM16,180; three bedrooms, RM19,745. Bathrooms you keep as handed over aren’t counted.
- The building work
Done by contractors, from quotes we gather and compare with you. We design, draw and manage the project; we don’t build it.
- Which council
Ampang Hilir is Kuala Lumpur, under DBKL. Ampang Jaya is Selangor, under the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ). Your assessment bill says which.
What should you plan first in an Ampang condo or house?
In a condo, start with the management’s renovation rules and how the rooms will really be used. In an Ampang Jaya house, plan the ground floor as one route from the car porch to the yard. Choose finishes after that.
Ampang is two places. Ampang Hilir, on the Kuala Lumpur side, is largely condos along Embassy Row, and around Taman U-Thant the city keeps them low-rise. Ampang Jaya, in Selangor, runs from Pandan Indah up to the hillside estates of Ukay and Bukit Antarabangsa. This walk starts with the condo.
The lift lobby and the shoe cabinet. Shoes, umbrellas and parcels need a place just inside the door. Give them a bench and a shoe cabinet with vents, since closed boxes grow mould in this humidity.
The management’s rules. Working hours, a renovation deposit, what can be drilled, where the air-conditioning units go. Ask for the rulebook with your keys. We draw the design inside it, and your plan goes to the management before work starts.
The service lift. Book it for deliveries, and measure it before you choose the sofa.
A big unit needs zones. Some Ampang Hilir condos are larger than most houses. Give yours a formal living room and a family one, a study with a door, and a dining table that seats everyone at once.
The glass. Glazing is fixed and the facade belongs to the building. In a low-rise block the view is often trees, so keep tall furniture off those windows. West-facing rooms still need sheers for the afternoon and blackout that seals at the edges.
The wet kitchen and the yard. If your unit has a wet kitchen and yard behind the main one, the wok and its smoke stay there. Give it a door and moisture-resistant cabinets.
If yours is a house in Ampang Jaya. The car porch is your front door, and grilles and the auto-gate go in first. Plan the dry kitchen, wet kitchen and yard as one route. On a hillside street, ask for the approved plans before changing anything outside.
If your home is older. A full renovation of an older home is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
How much does it cost to renovate a home in Ampang?
For a new two-bedroom Ampang condo with a closed kitchen, keeping its developer floors and bathrooms, renovation and furniture come to about RM67k–106k at Essential finishes (Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman), before the Sundays in Bed design fee of RM16,180.
Choose your kind of home, then set the rooms. The design fee is exact. The three ranges are what renovation and furniture typically cost at each finish level, until your contractors quote. It all runs in your browser and sends nothing.
2 bedrooms and the kitchen: 3 rooms at RM3,565, plus the open-plan living and dining at RM5,485. The foyer and utility yard are designed free.
Within each level, the low end is the essentials; the high end adds extras such as a feature wall, LED strips and a kitchen island.
What the three levels mean
Essential. Melamine carpentry, quartz tops, a simple plaster ceiling. Furniture from Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman, Fortytwo.my, Heesz, Kinsen Home, Neo Livin, Ruma Home, Joy Studio and Mumu Living.
Curated. Melamine and laminate, sintered stone, a plaster ceiling. Furniture from Commune, Cellini, Fella Design, Dezign District, Poet Living, Big Brain, Gudang, Crown Livin and Dadswood.
Bespoke. Bespoke laminate, detailed joinery, a ceiling with cornice. Furniture from Space Furniture, Tekni, BoConcept, King Living, Ambient Living, Stanzo, Forest Furniture, Roche Bobois, XTRA, Urban Edge, Molteni&C, Nostaloft, Flexform, Janine and Chesters Collection.
| Home | Essential | Curated |
|---|---|---|
| New 2-bedroom condo 2 bedrooms and a closed kitchen; floors and bathrooms kept | RM67k–106k | RM127k–232k |
| New 3-bedroom condo 3 bedrooms and a closed kitchen; floors and bathrooms kept | RM77k–122k | RM146k–266k |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms and a study, 2,001–3,000 sq ft; 3 bathrooms redone, new floors | RM151k–245k | RM267k–479k |
| New semi-D 5 bedrooms, a dry and a wet kitchen, 3,001–4,500 sq ft; floors and bathrooms kept | RM108k–196k | RM199k–413k |
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2 of its 3 bathrooms redone, new floors | RM141k–219k | RM250k–428k |
At Essential, furniture comes from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman; at Curated, from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living.
Priced for a home kept to its layout; a new home keeps its developer floors. The ranges cover carpentry, ceilings and paint, lighting and wiring, air-conditioning, kitchen appliances and loose furniture, but not a television.
No renovation costs have been published for Ampang homes yet. These ranges come from typical costs for each part of the job, not from Ampang projects. Estimates as of September 2026, not a quotation: your contractors’ quotes are the real number.
For Kuala Lumpur as a whole, see what renovating in KL costs.
How much does an interior designer cost in Ampang?
For a new two-bedroom condo in Ampang with a closed kitchen, the Sundays in Bed interior design fee is RM16,180; for a three-bedroom, RM19,745, fixed in writing before we begin.
| Home | Interior design | Interior styling |
|---|---|---|
| New 2-bedroom condo 2 bedrooms, a closed kitchen, living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM16,180 | RM7,780 |
| New 3-bedroom condo 3 bedrooms, a closed kitchen, living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM19,745 | RM9,495 |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms, a study, 3 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM34,005 | RM16,355 |
| New semi-D 5 bedrooms, a dry and a wet kitchen, living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM30,440 | RM14,640 |
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2 of its 3 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM30,440 | RM14,640 |
Rates as of September 2026. A dry kitchen and a wet kitchen count as two rooms.
We’ve assumed not every bathroom needs designing. Count only the ones you’d change.
Design or styling? Interior design is for when something is being built: carpentry, lighting, a kitchen. Interior styling is for rooms that stay as they are; it’s the furniture, art and finishing layer.
The fee follows the rooms, not the floor area. A 2,500 sq ft Ampang Hilir condo costs the same to design as a smaller one with the same rooms.
With interior design, the foyer and utility yard are designed free when your home has a bedroom and a living and dining space. A site visit is RM200, waived if you go ahead with us. The fee is paid in stages as the project progresses.
Why not a percentage? When design is folded into a build quote, or charged as a share of it, the fee grows every time you choose the better stone. Ours is fixed per room, so it doesn’t.
What about “free design”? It’s usually paid for inside the build price. Ours is a separate, fixed fee, so you can take the same drawings to more than one contractor and compare their quotes like for like.
What happens between the first call and moving in?
We design, draw and manage the project; contractors build it. You choose them from quotes we gather and compare, and your rooms and fee are agreed in writing before work begins.
- The discovery call FreeYour home, how you live, your budget and your key date.
- Keys and defectsReport defects to the developer in writing before any work touches them. The defect liability period runs 24 months from vacant possession.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure and photograph every room, and for a condo, the service lift your deliveries will use.
- The designLayout, lighting, built-ins and materials, room by room, with one designer from the first call to handover.
- The drawingsWhat your contractor builds from, so the quote and the work match the design.
- The quotesWe gather and compare contractors’ quotes and show you where your budget works hardest. You choose.
- The approvalsIn a condo, your plan and the renovation deposit go to the management first. The council permit is obtained by your licensed contractor; we help gather the documents.
- On site, then moving inWe coordinate the works and deliveries and check what’s built against the drawings. Condo renovations published by other firms in KL and PJ ran a median 12 weeks on site.
Which council, and what it costs. Ampang Hilir, Taman U-Thant, Jalan Ampang and KL East are in Kuala Lumpur, under DBKL. Ampang Jaya, including Pandan Indah, Taman Melawati, Ampang Point, Ukay Heights and Bukit Antarabangsa, is under the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ). Your assessment bill says which.
MPAJ publishes one approval as its example. In it, new tiles, kitchen cabinets and grilles for a home came to RM218 for the permit, the materials permit and the site sticker. A construction-waste bin added RM300. Work runs Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm.
On the DBKL side, your licensed contractor obtains the renovation permit. For a condo, it needs the written consent of the Joint Management Body or Management Corporation. In a condo on either side, the management approves your plan first.
Do you cover my part of Ampang?
Yes. Sundays in Bed designs homes in person across Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, and all of Ampang, on both sides of the state line, is inside that area. A site visit anywhere in it is RM200, waived if you go ahead with us.
New developments we’re following
These are the homes completing around Ampang now and over the next two years. If yours is one of them, we’ve already done the reading.
- Skyline EmbassyDue 2026Jalan Ampang, Embassy Row · three towers, units of 521–976 sq ft
- Sierra HijauanDate unconfirmedUkay Perdana, a 32-acre gated estate · semi-Ds from about 3,500 sq ft, and bungalows; final phases targeted Mar–Aug 2026
- 19TreesDate unconfirmedTaman Melawati · 222 strata terraces from 2,508 sq ft; developer’s target was end-2025
Sierra Hijauan’s semi-Ds are two-and-a-half and three storeys, and 19Trees’ terraces share their management like a condo. In both, the stair decides who sleeps where, and a ground-floor room for parents can matter more than a bigger master suite. Tell us which type is yours.
Also with their own page: The Atrium · U-Thant Residence · The Reya, KL East, due July 2029.
Neighbourhoods we cover
Ampang Hilir · Taman U-Thant · Jalan Ampang · Embassy Row · Kampung Datuk Keramat · Desa Melawati and KL East · Ampang Point · Taman Ampang Utama · Pandan Indah · Pandan Jaya · Taman Kosas · Taman Melawati · Ulu Klang · Ukay Heights · Ukay Perdana · Bukit Antarabangsa · Kemensah
Nearby, with their own pages: KLCC, Bukit Bintang and TRX · Bukit Tunku · Cheras · Mont Kiara, and the rest of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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Really thankful to have had such a smooth experience with Sundays In Bed from start to completion. Angelica & her team are professional, sincere & easy to work with.
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Ampang questions, answered
Do you do the building work yourselves?
No. We design, draw and manage the project. The works are carried out by contractors, chosen from quotes we gather and compare with you, so the renovation cost is a separate number from our design fee.
Which council approves work on an Ampang home?
It depends which side of the 1974 boundary you’re on: DBKL for Ampang Hilir and the Kuala Lumpur side, MPAJ for Ampang Jaya, Taman Melawati and Ukay Heights. In a condo, the building’s management approves the works first, either way.
Do you design older Ampang houses, or mainly the newer condos?
Both, at the same fee per room. An older house in Ampang Jaya and a newer condo in Ampang Hilir are different briefs, and we design each room by room. A full renovation of an older home is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
Can you work with a home that’s already partly renovated?
Yes. Tell us what’s already been done and we’ll design around it rather than assuming a blank shell. Each room is priced on its own, so you only pay for the rooms we design.
Should I start before I get my keys?
Yes, ideally five to six months before you want to move in, or as soon as you have a date for your keys. The design can then be ready at handover, and work starts once your defects are reported.
Is the design fee a percentage of my renovation budget?
No. It’s a fixed fee per room: RM3,565 per standard room and RM5,485 for the open-plan living and dining, agreed in writing before we begin and paid in stages as the project progresses, so it doesn’t rise when you choose a better finish.
Let’s talk about your Ampang home.
A free discovery call. Pick a time, then bring your floor plan, a few photos and your key date. You’ll know your design fee before you commit to anything.